DE SADE - DVD

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Love and hate. Genius and madness. Pleasure and pain. Like heaven and hell, they are inextricably connected. But what torturous demons live within these boundaries, threatening to consume the soul of any who come to near? Kier Dullea (2001: A Space Odyssey) and Oscar winner John Houston star in this “ornately splendid, extravagantly produced' (Hollywood Citizen-News) film about the man who made this errand realm his own: the notorious Marquis de Sade.; ; 'Man is not seduced evil, he is evil.' This is the creed of de Sade, and he reaffirms it daily as he exact his sexual pleasure from the tender flesh of the women of France. But he was not always a purveyor of corruption and depravity. He was once a young boy - honest, innocent…and about to become the victim of another's perverse brutality.
• Cast: Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer, Anna Massey, Sonja Ziemann, Christiane Krüger, Uta Levka, Barbara Stanek, Susanne von Almassy, Friedrich Schoenfelder, Herbert Weissbach, Heinz Spitzner, John Huston, Maria Caleita, Rolf Eden, Eva Maria Gebel, Susanne Hsiao, Max Kiebach, Anke Syring, Evelyne Traeger, Cy Endfield, Roger Corman, Gordon Hessler, Richard Matheson
• Director: Cy Endfield
• Runtime: 1:54
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment, American International Pictures
• Media Format: Movie